http://www.pwinsiderxtra.com/ViewArticle.php?id=10919&p=1
Action figures?! 
This is the most recent I can find…
http://fiveouncesofpain.com/2008/06/11/5-oz-
exclusive-ufcs-huge-announcement-revealed-plans-
new-york-regulation-delayed/
If that’s true, well then strike out for Dana “FUCKING” White. Would have been cool, but not necessarily “Mind blowing”
Also looks like he’s pushing back the announcement date. Stringing us along, eh?
http://www.mmafrenzy.com/2008/06/11/report-
major-ufc-announcement-to-be-made-on-tuesday-
june-17th/
I think I’m in agreement with a poster there. He’s probably going to wait til Tuesday and then push it back to the TUF finals.
Just what we’ve come to expect from DFW
Is the announcement about the July 19th fight set up to compete with Affliction???Big deal…
Yeh, anybody know wtf it was?
[quote]Mousse wrote:
Yeh, anybody know wtf it was?[/quote]
It’s been pushed back again to tomorrow at noon.
No Dana realizes Tito was good for business, and he challenges Tito to fight him at UFC 89 in Madison Square Garden on Halloween.
The announcement is today. MMApayouts.com leaked this story, and they are a very, very respectable source.
[quote]Speculation within the MMA industry about the subject of Dana White’s major announcement continues to center on the potential sale of the company. In what would fit the bill as an industry changing announcement, MMAPayout.com has learned that Bertelsmann Media, a German based international entertainment company, is rumored to have had advanced discussions about acquiring a controlling interest in Zuffa.
Bertelsmann is a publicly traded company with a market cap in excess of $1 billion euros. The multinational media company owns Random House and a 50% stake in Sony BMG Music among a host of other media holdings. Sources have told MMAPayout.com that the company’s interest in acquiring Zuffa dates back to last fall.
In a move that could be related to a potential acquisition of Zuffa, the company announced its intention to sell its 50% stake in Sony BMG Music earlier this year. The last obstacle to the sale was removed last week when EU regulators confirmed an earlier anti-trust ruling, ratifying the previous merger of Sony and BMG. That sale is expected to generate in excess of $1 billion.
Whatever the announcement is, White is scheduled to reveal it to Zuffa’s employees tomorrow at 12PM PST with a public announcement expected to follow shortly there after. The announcement will end a week of furious rumors and speculation inside the MMA industry.[/quote]
And right as I say that, they post that Bertlesmann is denying they are going forward with a purchase:
http://www.mmapayout.com/2008/06/bertelsmann-denies-interest-in-ufc.html
WTF.?!
Fertitta shifts from casinos to cage
I’m told this is it.
[quote]Mick28 wrote:
Rasslore wrote:
"I think the potential for the UFC within the next five years globally is that it is going to be bigger than the NFL, bigger than Major League Baseball. As huge as the NFL is here, they don�??t give a (expletive) about the NFL in Europe. But fighting transcends continents. Everybody on every continent understands a fight."
So…when it’s the biggest sport on the planet as they predict I wonder if the fighters will then be paid on par with other elite athletes?
Can you see a 30 million dollar pay day for one fight in the near future? I can’t…not as long as Dana White and the measly brothers run the show.
[/quote]
You do have a point there. Fighters make table scraps compared to the top guys in the NBA, NFL, MLB, and NHL. I’m sure Dana probably makes close to what A-Rod does though.
In five years I will be surprised if the UFC is as big as it is now. I see it going down the same road that boxing did where greed pretty much killed it. And Dana White isn’t helping matters much for them.
I think they really need to get in Japan. They eat fighting up over there. I’m just not too sure how well they would take to an American promotion.
That was it???!
It’s not really a big announcement to us. To the UFC, and MMA business, this is huge. This means that someone other than Dana White is going to be the primary mouth piece for the organization. Dana has done a great job making the company profitable, but his lack of tact and general unprofessionalism had held them back in some key areas. Fertita is a business genius, soft and intelligently spoken, with major global connections. Up until now Lorenzo & Frank have kept a respectable distance from their investment. Now, after two or three years of reaching profitable status, a feat which no other American MMA organization has ever accomplished, it seems the risk has dissolved to where they want more hands on control.
If they want to take the UFC truly worldwide and to the next level, they need a guy like him to do it. And it looks like they are ready to take that step.
[quote]facko wrote:
That was it???![/quote]
Yes. I am more excited about the upcoming UFC videogame personally. And the action figures.
[quote]Donut62 wrote:
It’s not really a big announcement to us. To the UFC, and MMA business, this is huge. This means that someone other than Dana White is going to be the primary mouth piece for the organization. Dana has done a great job making the company profitable, but his lack of tact and general unprofessionalism had held them back in some key areas. Fertita is a business genius, soft and intelligently spoken, with major global connections. Up until now Lorenzo & Frank have kept a respectable distance from their investment. Now, after two or three years of reaching profitable status, a feat which no other American MMA organization has ever accomplished, it seems the risk has dissolved to where they want more hands on control.
If they want to take the UFC truly worldwide and to the next level, they need a guy like him to do it. And it looks like they are ready to take that step.[/quote]
Agreed.
An entrepreneur (White) does not usually make the best COO or CEO (the Fertitas).
Boxercise gyms.